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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Van Hollen accused of attempting to suppress black vote in Maryland, was ripped by Hillary Clinton

2016 U.S. Senate candidateDonna Edwards

The Montgomery County Council's unanimous endorsement of Chris Van Hollen in the U.S. Senate race last year has just blown up in their faces. In every cycle since 2006, the County Council has declined to support black candidates for U.S. Senate seats from Maryland, including former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume in 2006, and Donna Edwards last year.

90 comments:

Given that reporting what is in a book isn't "plagiarism," I have to assume you're compiling a list of descriptives that apply to the small and slightly-failing magazine - which I scooped on this major story.

Robert, did you read the whole 500 page book already? If so that's impressive, if not you have no business writing article about it yet. You sure do love to sensationalize and invent conspiracy theories and diabolical plots of evil cartels...

11:27: No, the County Council has established a pattern of institutional racism, along with their hand-picked Planning Board and the Planning Department.

The Council is not only fully complicit in the cemetery debacle, but have also declined to discipline, chastise, or denounce the PB and Planning for the racist and disrespectful way they've treated the members and leaders of Macedonia Baptist Church. I've never seen anything like it in Montgomery County.

We certainly can't normalize this criminal County Council, complicit in institutional racism, and criminally on the take.

HAH! Robert, what do you have against van Hollen? He's actually the most competent politician in this state, and has done more for Maryland than most anyone else. If you want to attack a known political hack, go after Delaney or Raskin. The funny thing is, van Hollen is one of the few shining lights in an otherwise dim democratic national field. I honestly think you just hate everyone who holds office.

12:25: Nothing personal against Van Hollen. I think Delaney has done more to try and advance infrastructure, whereas Van Hollen left us high and dry when he should have been protecting us with the impact of BRAC.

He had so little power, that he could not negotiate direct Beltway access into Walter Reed, and instead, taxpayers were slammed with a handful of "let's look busy" road tinkering and pedestrian tunnel fiascos. All utterly failed, one of the biggest wastes of taxpayer funds of all time.

I can't think of one major piece of legislation he got through that will be in the history books. It appears that national Democrats don't share the idea that sitting in front of a player piano during the absurd, horrible presidency of George W. Bush makes you Van Cliburn.

1:03: Very easily - it appears they have very similar status among the power brokers in their party. Riemer's laughable special orders bill was praised to high heaven by a few allies in the press and MoCo cartel. But when it got to Annapolis, his own party leaders promptly tore it up, and threw it in the garbage.

Lots of similar praise for VH here, but then the most powerful Democrat of all bodyslams him for his selfish voter suppression plan that would have hurt her own campaign. Both men have crazy ideas quickly dismissed by their superiors, and are both ridiculously overrated.

Only an uneducated hobo like you would consider History to be "laughably easy." You're sitting behind a keyboard typing childish, cowardly anonymous comments at all hours of the day in exchange for chump change and a cheap apartment provided by the MoCo cartel - and you're telling me MY life has gone nowhere? Please.

At least I have a record of accomplishments in getting things done in Montgomery County, unlike your bosses.

And what, pray tell, has your fearless leader Orangina done for you or any of us to date, except make a complete embarrassment of the U.S.? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. PERIOD I'll take Hillary any day over the circus of clowns Drumpf has presented and you seem to sniff their ripe butt-holes.

Dyer is very active on multiple social platforms, a community activist and well known.

We know so little about other local journalists. Maybe they can write an "about me" as well?I'm sure their readers would love to know where they go to school, their home addresses, who their parents are, how much rent they pay, etc. Critical info for readers to know!

Other (aka real) journalists don't have nut-job conspiracy theories, biased jealousy that shows up as hatred, and berate their readers like Dyer. If he could stick to facts, people wouldn't hassle him as much.

10:45am, the attacks on Dyer are getting tiresome. However, I've seen no proof that any of these attacks are from other "local bloggers" most of them are anonymous commentators. They're just as likely to be bored desk jockeys as they are to be local bloggers. Who knows, maybe Dyer is trolling himself to drive traffic?

When some of you come here and attack Robert for personal reasons, you're making yourselves look stupid. Just quit it already. If you have a problem with something he writes, just stick to that and back it up with evidence and a proper justification. Making fun of someone's age or race or college degree is extremely stupid.

Why would you think I am making fun of him by asking his age? I tried to give you my reasoning by listing the generational groups.Someone's age most definitely can influence their views and positions on issues.That is why I asked his age.

Would love to see hidden camera footage of other top national Democrats expressing their true feelings about Van Hollen. The golden boy ain't so golden outside the protected confines of MoCo, it turns out.

6:47: If you don't have a discography, you're not in the music business.

6:48: There are a lot of indie labels that no longer exist that you won't find in Google. You're talking about a record that came out almost 20 years ago.

9:27: #FakeNews

10:17: Hans Riemer has been elected twice with no media scrutiny of his fictional biography, and massive out-of-state funding from Wall Street crooks and their K Street lobbyists. Most recently, no exposes on his coverup of illegal activity in the DLC until after election day, and gross violation of the open data law.

Imagine if I had said more than:"It's a label of self-published artists."

What part of "business" in music business don't you understand? There's more to the business than just being an artist. I did some work with Dick Freeland and Rebel Records, as an example. It ain't nothin'.

12:48: Wrong! There was more criminal activity than the beer drinking.

2:34: I've never made any false claims. I've been a professional musician and recording artist, but never claimed to have sold a million records. I've never claimed to have any important or powerful jobs, or inflated my resume.

Hans Riemer, by contrast, claimed responsibility for Obama's youth vote victory, and said that he was the Youth Director for Obama when he won in 2008. Rumor has it that Riemer was actually let go from that job before Obama had even defeated Clinton in the primary.

He also claimed to have saved Social Security from George W. Bush at AARP. Go back to 2010 and 2014 when he repeatedly made both claims.

Dyer, Riemer never claimed to have done that single-handedly. Here is what he actually said:

"Hans was a senior advisor for AARP before joining the County Council, an organization that he has worked closely with throughout his career. A nationally recognized leader on Social Security, Hans played a pivotal role organizing the Democratic coalition that stopped President Bush from privatizing Social Security. Tom Matzzie, of MoveOn.org, called Hans “one of five people in the country most responsible for protecting Social Security from George Bush.”"